Chapter 58: World domination was too hard.

Liwu tapped the danger icon, signalling that a system host in the deep red zone had appeared. An SOB SWAT team filled out on the beach, startling the other hosts that were waiting to be registered.

“Remain calm.” She told Haocun. “We are going to move inside and talk out of the earshot of everyone else. The officers are here for your protection and everyone else’s.”

The young woman nodded, remaining calm. Flanked on every side, Haocun and Liwu were escorted into the precinct to an interrogation room.

Liwu treated this as any other interrogation. She started off by offering Haocun some tea and a snack.

Haocun turned them both down. “I would rather go straight to it.”

Liwu sat across from her and sighed. This had to be related to her bad luck. Of all the officers involved in the registration process, how was it that this hot potato landed in her lap? “Let’s start simple.” She clicked a pen. The six cameras in the room were active.

Tai Alix and others watching from the SOB headquarters in Beijing.

“You listed your system as World Domination.” Liwu looked at Haocun.

Haocun nodded eagerly. “Yes, that is exactly what I said. Just like I also said, it only activates on Mondays. The rest of days of the week, I am supposed to build a device that will help me accomplish this goal. Like I said, it never works. I don’t know if its because I am not interested or my system is weak. Anyway, I thought honesty was the best policy during registration so I decided to lay all my cards on the table.”

Liwu muttered, “Mondays, of course. Who likes Monday?” She raised her voice. “I need to know how you attempted this world domination.”

Haocun leaned forward. “I have only had the system for a year and as soon as I activated it, I knew the Bureau would hunt me down so I moved here that very day. I left everything of mine in Guangzhou but my brother sent it over later.

That first Monday, I wrote a manifesto and made my way into City hall. You would be so surprised if you knew how easy that was. Anyway, I wanted to warn the residents first and broadcast my manifesto–you know, ’I am your new leader, bow before me citizens!.”

Liwu lips parted and her eyebrows jumped up. She looked around, searching for something. “Did Linlin put you up to this or was it one of my idiot youngest brothers?” This seemed to be more comedic than she thought.

Haocun shook her head. “I don’t know who Linlin is and I have never met your brothers.” She laid her head down on the table and sighed sadly, “It didn’t work, my first plan. The system glitched. Instead of my speech, it played a loop of the city clerk’s affair with the city master’s event planner. All I succeeded in doing was help the wife of the city clerk take 80% of his property and custody of their children in the divorce.”

Liwu’s pen broke.

[+5 points: Broken pen.]

She got a replacement pen from her pocket and used it to tap the desk twice. “Sit up and continue.”

“The following Monday,” Haocun continued, “I built fifty small drones the size of houseflies. My system promised they would form an unstoppable aerial fleet. But when I launched them, the GPS misaligned and they flew in perfect formation straight into Yongding River!” She sat up and huffed. “Can you believe that shit?”

“No.” Liwu answered in monotone. Truly, she did not believe it.

“Third Monday,” Haocun raised her right hand with three fingers exposed, “I decided to aim for the transport system. If you control it, you control trade and you can control an entire country. So, I tried to control the subway here in One city. But that same day, some idiot released red ants on some trains and people panicked. All the trains were stalled for inspection and my grand plan died.”

“What are the odds?” Liwu asked.

Haocun nodded. “I know. It is like I have a nemesis that peeks into my plans and ruins them. On the fourth Monday, I figured I would do something small. I hijacked all the digital billboards in five cities to share dirt on all the city officials and make them hated. But, instead of sharing dirt, the screens displayed cats singing karaoke!” She groaned. “People assumed it was advertisement for the movie ’The secret life of cats and the slaves who love them.’”

“I love that movie.” Liwu said with a smile.

Haocun snorted. “It was one of those movies that was dying a slow death in theaters and everywhere else until my billboard blunder.”

Liwu leaned forward, “You are telling me that all your world domination attempts amount to comical kind of failure.”

Haocun nodded. “Like I said, I don’t know who is sabotaging me.”

Liwu sighed. “Sounds like you need an assistant who is good at planning and overseeing the operation from start to finish.”

Haocun’s eyes widened. “How did I never think of that?”

The door to the interrogation room suddenly flew in and one bureau president with a sharp look of disapproval walked into the room. With every click of the heel of her boots, Liwu’s heartbeat climbed higher.

She stood up and saluted. “Mom…I mean, President Tai.”

Alix looked at her daughter sternly, “An assistant! Detective Tai Liwu, it seems like you want to branch into a new line of work as a criminal advisor.”

Liwu winced, “No ma’am. I said this without thinking.” She wondered what her mother was doing in the precinct. Obviously, she had come over by way of teleportation, but why?

Alix stood before Haocun, her floral scent filled the room. Her strong aura made the young woman shrink in the chair. “Hi…hello…hi.”

Alix said to her, “You should have turned yourself in to us as soon as you activated such a dangerous system.”

Haocun winced. “I heard you kill people like me. People with systems you consider uncontrollable or dangerous. How could I turn myself in?”

“So why are you here today?” Alix tilted her head. “Aren’t you scared that we will kill you?”

Haocun aughed. “I knew a kid with an explosives making system. I met him in a failed system hosts support group. He was only fourteen and his mother was freaking out. She said she was in talks with someone that could get them help from the your side. We all thought it would end badly but I met him last week in the supermarket.

The explosives system is gone and he has a ’Small pet raising system instead. He told me what you did for him so I turned myself in today. I need a system that gives me my old life back.

I hate building devices in my garage and plotting how to take over the world. A world which sucks by the way. I wake up every Monday afraid that a Bureau agent or officer will put a bullet in me.” She stood up and held her arms out. “Arrest me, take this system. Give me something that makes me money, gives me useful skills or points me in the direction of a rich husband.”

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